From 615d0ebbc782b67296e3226c293f520f93f93515 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masami Hiramatsu Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:49:04 -0500 Subject: kprobes: Disable booster when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y Disable kprobe booster when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y at this time, because it can't ensure that all kernel threads preempted on kprobe's boosted slot run out from the slot even using freeze_processes(). The booster on preemptive kernel will be resumed if synchronize_tasks() or something like that is introduced. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: systemtap Cc: DLE Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jim Keniston Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Steven Rostedt LKML-Reference: <20100202214904.4694.24330.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/kprobes.c | 29 ++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/kprobes.c') diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c index b7df302a0204..9907a03c29f6 100644 --- a/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -124,30 +124,6 @@ static LIST_HEAD(kprobe_insn_pages); static int kprobe_garbage_slots; static int collect_garbage_slots(void); -static int __kprobes check_safety(void) -{ - int ret = 0; -#if defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT) && defined(CONFIG_FREEZER) - ret = freeze_processes(); - if (ret == 0) { - struct task_struct *p, *q; - do_each_thread(p, q) { - if (p != current && p->state == TASK_RUNNING && - p->pid != 0) { - printk("Check failed: %s is running\n",p->comm); - ret = -1; - goto loop_end; - } - } while_each_thread(p, q); - } -loop_end: - thaw_processes(); -#else - synchronize_sched(); -#endif - return ret; -} - /** * __get_insn_slot() - Find a slot on an executable page for an instruction. * We allocate an executable page if there's no room on existing ones. @@ -235,9 +211,8 @@ static int __kprobes collect_garbage_slots(void) { struct kprobe_insn_page *kip, *next; - /* Ensure no-one is preepmted on the garbages */ - if (check_safety()) - return -EAGAIN; + /* Ensure no-one is interrupted on the garbages */ + synchronize_sched(); list_for_each_entry_safe(kip, next, &kprobe_insn_pages, list) { int i; -- cgit v1.2.3